Lead Automation QA Engineer - Remote Eligible

Lead Automation QA Engineer

N-iX is looking for a Lead Automation QA Engineer to join our team. Our client handles a desktop & web-based graphical application that allows you to create beautiful timelines, Gantt charts, and roadmaps in your browser and export them as PowerPoint slides.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement robust validation, linting, and QA workflows to ensure the syntactic correctness, logic integrity, and coverage quality of detection rules before they are delivered to customer systems
• Assist the development team in creating and managing data required for testing and validating user stories and bugs
• Review and analyze automated test cases and results to identify gaps and areas for improvement
• Perform manual exploratory testing of front-end functionality after deployments in the production environment
• Develop and implement non-functional testing strategies, such as performance and security testing, with the development team
• Document and update QA processes, test plans, and product quality strategies to ensure alignment across the team
• Review business requirements to write test cases and test plans Identify and document all levels of testing including functional, integration, user acceptance and exploratory
• Build and execute automated test cases

Requirements:

• 5+ years of professional experience in software testing with a strong focus on test automation
• Experience in C# or C based language
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining automation frameworks, with the ability to independently utilize and extend existing frameworks
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions) and test integration into release workflows
• Strong understanding of QA methodologies, tools, and processes
• Strong understanding of maintainable test automation architecture
• Hands on experience on desktop automation
• Experience in VSTO
• Proficiency in creating test cases in BDD/TDD (Behavior-Driven Development/Test-Driven Development) language (e.g., Gherkin)
• Experience with test automation tools and frameworks for integration and E2E testing (both back-end and front-end)
• Knowledge of non-functional testing strategies (e.g., performance, security)
• Familiarity with version control systems (e.g., Git) and CI/CD pipelines
• Strong ability to analyze and debug issues in collaboration with development teams
• Ability to identify root causes of defects and implement preventative measures
• Strong communication skills to support PO in defining acceptance criteria for user stories
• Experience with manual exploratory testing for scenarios not covered by automation
• Knowledge of smoke/sanity testing processes in production environments
• Ability to monitor quality metrics and regression pipeline results
• Proficiency in reporting automated test statuses and incidents to the team
• Skilled in maintaining documentation around quality assurance processes and lead quality for the product
• Ability to align testing strategy with the team's delivery goals
• Upper-Intermediate English level

We Offer*:

• Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible
• A competitive salary and good compensation package
• Personalized career growth
• Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)
• Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing
• Education reimbursement
• Memorable anniversary presents
• Corporate events and team buildings
• Other location-specific benefits

*not applicable for freelancers